Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.			Private Residence - Castello Oranjezicht, Cape Town, Western Cape Mello Gerardus DAMSTRA: Architect

Date: c1920 Type: Homestead Status: Extant Street: 46 Upper Orange Street   Click to view map Coordinates: 33°56'37.23" S 18°24'49.70" E Alt: 138m

Highly ornate Italianate three storeyed private residence with bilaterally symmetrical facade. Corps Avant articulated by two giant-order Ionic Columns flanking a central recessed bay. Built for Castello by Damstra. He lived here with his first wife. The tempietto (at the back) was originally the voliere.